Breaking ranks
At the Kentucky Author Forum Monday night, Sen. John McCain was asked a most interesting question by a self-described Democrat. “Why are you a Republican?” she asked, in a tone that suggested she wished he weren’t. McCain responded first by evoking the spirit of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, then by enumerating the principles…
So I played for him
Spirituality By Terry Taylor, Come they told me, pa rum pum pum pumA new born King to see, pa rum pum pum pumOur finest gifts we bring, pa rum pum pum pumTo lay before the King, pa rum pum pum pum,
rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum, So to honor Him, pa rum pum…
Kobe co-founder opens Tran Japanese steakhouse in New Albany
Tran Japanese Steakhouse and Sushi was damaged by a small fire on Oct. 29, one day after the accompanying review was written, and was forced to close temporarily. Tran reopened on Friday, Dec. 16, and the writer returned to find the restaurant unmarred and the food of high quality. Tran offered free appetizer samples as…
Erosia
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Video TapeWorm: Releases through Dec. 27
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS:DARK WATER2005; VHS Rental/DVD $29.95, PG-13/URJennifer Connelly, newly separated with new job and new apartment, is starting a new life with her daughter. But dark, mysterious and persistent leaks of noisesome water around her dilapidated building seem to symbolize her decaying life as the relationship with her husband degrades into a bitter…
Five Important Questions With Siberia
Ambient music lives in a weird space. For one, it’s typically ignored by the masses, as it lacks basic pop song structure, is usually sans vocals and takes a while to get to the point. The masses want to be gratified much quicker than that. The irony is that every person who has ever watched…
Which Christmas records suck this year?
This is the season that never ends (it goes on and on, my friend) Christmas never ends, even for those for whom it never begins. Although the monsoon of pointless gift offerings only saturates every inch of the Western world for two long, dreary months, in this essay I will focus my adorable rage on…
Feminist synergy: Kentucky Foundation for Women celebrates 20 years
BY MOLLY CUNNINGHAM In the Arcadia Community Center in south Louisville’s Wilder Park neighborhood, a half-dozen Somali women sit on the couch in a brightly painted room chattering in Bantu. Each woman is wrapped from head to toe in cloths of varying colors and patterns, each carefully styled into a harmonized outfit. One woman hunches over…
Rumor & Innuendo: Rumblings From the World of Sports
No, no Nolan. I’ve heard some pretty accurate but mighty disturbing whispers about the collegiate inclinations of superüberprepster Nolan Smith. For a long while now, the son of former Card icon Derek Smith has been considered a lock to wear red and black. Not anymore. I’ve got it on good authority that the kid and…
No End Insight: Round 2
At the start of every Metro Council meeting, 10 constituents get to speak briefly about whatever they want, whether it’s on the Council agenda or not. Last Thursday in a City Hall decked with poinsettias, five addressed an issue that wasn’t set for discussion at the last meeting of 2005: cable TV. Why? Insight’s July…
What a Week
Embryonic spree In a potential setback to right-wing sanctimony, U of L researchers announced a breakthrough in coaxing adult bone-marrow cells to mimic embryonic stem cells. The research could lead to cures for various diseases without harvesting cells from embryos. Despite the windfall for the embryo community, no embryos returned repeated phone calls or e-mails seeking…
Scott Mullins heading north
Scott Mullins, whose voice has been heard on local public radio for 20 years, is leaving WFPK-FM for a start-up Triple-A station in Milwaukee. Mullins’ last broadcast will be his long-running “Blues Party†on Saturday, Jan. 7. Mullins began hosting the blues show in 1985; he’s also handled other programming since the Public Radio Partnership…
A commander reflects on Election Day in Iraq
By Lt. Col. John G. Norris U.S. Army 4th Battalion 23rd Infantry of the Stryker Brigade MOSUL, Iraq (December 15, 2005)—It is 1:45 a.m. on Election Day here. A Stryker platoon under my command reports that one of their vehicles has struck an IED (an improvised explosive device, or booby trap) hidden in the curb…
Staff Picks
Staffpicks Through Dec. 24 Last-minute Christmas shopping If you like standing in line, bumping into smelly strangers, being cut off in parking lots and being trampled every time that stupid blue light starts to flash, then you’re in luck — it’s last-minute shopping season for Christmas. Every year at this time, reluctant husbands, fathers, bachelors,…
Strokes of genius: Getting a read on the handwriting of famous artists
What if you could get into the mind of famous artists and tap their inner thoughts and feelings? Did their public personas match the personalities they revealed in private letters? LEO took an opportunity to address this curiosity when Louisville Free Public Library opened the exhibition “More Than Words: Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian’s Archives…
